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In message <[email protected]>, "Mark Borchers" writes: > >> It difficult to tell from the article whether UK ISPs are refusing to >> cooperate with lawful requests from UK police, or if UK police are >> trying to get ISPs to give information without proper authorization. >> >> http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=119873 > >It's difficult to argue with the premise that "it was in the interests of >ISPs to co-operate in investigations against hackers and virus writers". > >I can recall posts to this list bemoaning the fact that the FBI was slow >or unwilling to launch cybercrime investigations not tied espionage, >terrorism, or other good, old-fashioned crime. > > > > I haven't checked the law since the Patriot Act was passed. Prior to that, however, in the U.S. the law *prohibited* communications carriers from giving certain information to the government without a warrant -- but they were free to give it or sell it to anyone else. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2703.html see (c)(1)(A) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
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